INSPIRATIONS

Growing Right is deeply indebted to & wildly inspired, first and foremost, to our incredible narrators — and the people, animals, plants and systems that have shaped an ecological food and farm movement in Ohio.

We also owe our vision to a host of incredible cultural workers, oral historians, activists, ethnographers, public historians and documentarians pioneering new models of embedded, community-collaborative, place-based and activist practice to create conversations around critical issues in health, social justice, food systems and environment.

We’re especially inspired by projects that innovate and seek to model “sharing authority” both at the level of documentationandinterpretation. We’re moved by projects that take up oral historian Michael Frisch’s call for “sharing authority” as a verb that’s never quite finished — a process and an ethics always to strive towards.

Below, we’ll aim to highlight friends, mentors and heroes of Growing Right that have shaped our practice, vision, and sense of what is possible in engaged, community-collaborative cultural work. We hope these links, practitioners, grassroots networks and badass projects might be inspiration for you, too.